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room and board

noun

First recorded in 1950–55

Lodging and meals, as in The university's price for room and board has increased by another 10 percent . [Mid-1900s]

Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.

One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.

Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.

The resources were what you might expect: Dining room, a media center, a library, a TV room, a meeting room, a computer room.

Barry showed me his room—a one bedroom with a killer view of Riverbank State Park and the Hudson.

The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.

In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.

His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.

When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.

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